Rhaponticum
Rhaponticum is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.[2][3]
Rhaponticum species are perennial herbaceous plants with simple, rarely branched stems. The leaves are simple to pinnatifid. The inflorescence is on the apex of the stem. The fruit is an achene with a hairy pappus.[4]
Several species are now relegated to other genera: Centaurea, Klasea, Ochrocephala, Stemmacantha, and Synurus.[1]
